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The campaign succeeded, and she was presented with an actual hippopotamus, which – as had been planned all along – she donated to the city zoo. [11] The hippopotamus lived for nearly 50 years. [10] In 2017, Peevey, then 73 years old, was again present when the Oklahoma City Zoo acquired a rare pygmy hippopotamus from the San Diego Zoo. [11 ...
The Oklahoma City Zoo capitalized upon the popularity of "I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas" with a fundraising campaign to "buy a hippo for Gayla". The fund raised $3,000 (equivalent to US$34,164 in 2023), and a baby hippopotamus named Matilda (who weighed over 700 pounds [ 2 ] ) was purchased and given to Peevey, which she then donated to ...
He later wrote I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (1953) with Gayla Peevey singing the original version. It was a popular song with 39 artists singing the cover for it. [9] That same year, he was one of several songwriters and lyricists for the Broadway show John Murray Anderson's Almanac (1953). [10]
'I WANT A HIPPOPOTAMUS FOR CHRISTMAS' 70TH ANNIVERSARY SING-ALONG. Featuring: Gayla Peevey. When: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 9. Where: Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden, 2000 Remington Place.
Run-DMC, "Christmas in Hollis" The 1987 Special Olympics charity album, A Very Special Christmas, had some incredible contributions from A-list artists like Madonna, Whitney Houston, Bruce ...
"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" 48: 3 — "A Different Kind of Christmas" 50 — — "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" 2005 60 — — "Santa Baby" [101] 2010 — — — — "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" 2014 — 25 — One Christmas: Chapter 1 "Celebrate Me Home" (with Gavin DeGraw) 2015 — 12: 25 Today Is Christmas "Today ...
Christmas came early for pygmy hippo parents at the Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia.
The song (probably the Finnish version) can be heard at length in the background (playing on the radio) of a scene in the Swedish film, My Life as a Dog-- the music for at least one stanza seems to be identical to the music for the song "All I Want for Christmas is a Hippopotamus"David 05:31, 2 March 2008 (UTC) []